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Fair point. But when I jump from 3 km, I bask in the knowledge that plenty of people have done it in the past and landed alive (not that it says anything about
by jaipilot747 14y ago
Fair point. But when I jump from 3 km, I bask in the knowledge that plenty of people have done it in the past and landed alive (not that it says anything about how _my_ jump will go). But jumping from 30km, I know that no one else has done it.
No idea how many people died when skydiving began, but I'm guessing there were a few deaths, and I would hate to be part of a similar statistic. Having said that, skydiving is definitely on my list of things to do before 2014.
- base698 14y agoThe fatality rate per participant is a lot lower now than it was in the beginning "It used to be referred to as sport death", but it's still about 13 - 30 a year. Mostly due to accidents involving landing and other entirely preventable things.
- digitalengineer 14y agoI almost ended up in those statistics. The ropes of my chute got tangled up when it deployed. Thankfully they untangled in time :-) Got in on video too, ha ha.